In the past four years, at least 30 Mexican journalists have been murdered or disappeared. Sunday, a respected newspaper in Ciudad Juárez directly addressed the drug cartels battling for control of the city. In a front-page editorial, El Diario called for a truce. Two years ago, the paper's lead crime reporter was gunned down in his driveway before he could take his daughter to school. Last week, a photo-journalist was killed in the parking lot of a busy shopping mall.
Mexico's Drug Wars and Reporting the News
Credits
Guests:
- William Booth - London Bureau Chief for the Washington Post - @BoothWilliam
- Daniel Lund - President, MUND Americas
- Andrew Selee - Woodrow Wilson Center / Johns Hopkins University - @SeleeAndrew
- Ricardo Pascoe - Workers Revolutionary Party (PRD) - @rpascoep